New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

HAVE THE CONVERSATION It saved my life!

If anyone had asked Chelsea Halliwell five years ago to pose in her underwear for a national bowel cancer awareness campaign, her answer would have been an emphatic no.

But that was before the Christchurch mother-of-two was diagnosed with the illness. Now, having come through the other side of it and been pronounced cancer-free at her five-year check-up last year, she reckons she’d be remiss not to!

As a

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